Our Lady of Mercy School - Lore Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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120 You Can't Take Ballet dancing, a xylophone, snakes and chandeliers set the stage for the fall production of “You Can’t Take It With You.”’ The play concerns the eccentric Sycamore family and is set in New York City in 1935. This year Mrs. Francis decided to double-cast the play due to a shortage of female roles. Major roles were held by the following students: lisa Dailey, Michele Locke, Marybeth Commito, Maureen Bailey, Ginny Sullivan, Miriam Twardon, Mo Gray, Sue Pruett, Kerrie Hammell and Yvonne Baginski. Mrs. Francis directed, Miss Janet Roncelli was the producer and Mr. Ron Sill the production director. Student director and stage manager were seniors Nancy Calice and Barbara Strohl, respectively. With all this talent, how could we help but expect the hilarious two hours we spent at the house just around the corner from Columbia University, the Martin Vanderhof home? Above right: Lisa Dailey, Greg Taylor, Jim Ebner and Bob Hoff. Center left: Danny King, Carol Skelton, Jim Ebner, Marybeth Com- mito, Steve Zygmont, Matt Boluk, Anne Sullivan, Greg Taylor and Mo Bailey argue over supper. Center right: A startled Maureen Bai- ley, accompanied by Matt Boluk, Tom Wicker, Danny King and Greg Taylor. Lower right: Marybeth Commito as Essie with Greg Taylor and Jim McElroy. It Withmeyou,

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New Friendships Strengthened by School Social Events With the many changes within the school sys- tem at Mercy this year, it’s a relief to know that some of the traditional activities still remain. One, highly popular with both the seniors and fresh- men, is the Big-Little Sister party. It is through this activity that the freshmen are able to get acquaint- ed with other students besides those of their class. Also, it gives the freshmen someone to come to with any problem, scholastic or otherwise. For the seniors, it’s one of the first activities of the school year that truly recognizes the seniors as seniors. A get-acquainted party was given in the beginning of the year, including beverages and cookies, with a skit put on by the Mercy Mimes. The seniors and freshmen gathered, en masse, once again in De- cember for a Christmas party that was filled with well wishing and good times. Top: The Mercy Mimes perform a skit as entertainment for the party. Top left: Lynn Frank and her little sister are getting acquaint- ed while, bottom left: Cathy Quinn inquisitively questions her little sister.

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It My Friends Could See Me Now... ' ae Exciting. Fast moving. Gullible Charity Hope Valentine, dance hall hostess, gives her heart and money to the wrong men. She offers a tender, poignant and amusing yet lovable look at the misadventures of love. She dances, laughs and cries over the people she INneeis: Charity’s world is the very real domain of Time Square and all the people that pass through this world are as deceptively charming as any that ever crossed the stage. Charity’s loves can be Classified as the ‘ultra-chic continental,’’ ‘‘animal magnetism,’’ and the “impossible-to-believe-but-better-than-nothing’’ type of heroes. We are introduced to all the people in her world and be they her hard-core dance hall girl friends, the Central Park ‘‘strollers’’ or the YMCA “‘self-improvers’’ — they’re the people we've always wanted to meet but never seem to. We get our chance to through Charity. Upper left: Tim McCool and Bob Hoff lift Gayla Gregor high into the air. Lower left: Renee Roy, Jeanne Wisne, Karen Law, Pat Kolinski and Ruthann Logsdon as the dancing Faydenko girls. Middle right: Gayla Gregor and Joe Kolinski over cafe-style lunch. 121